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drupa Preview | Exhibitors Launch New Products

(Carton Box)

March 08, 2012, ... Robotic Stack/Count Technology for IML FAIRFIELD, OH | Schober (Stand #11/C06) will feature high-speed robotic technology for stacking and counting long and complex runs of in-mold labeling products ...

Gloucester Acquires Future Design

(Flexpack)

March 06, 2012, ... Design, Toronto, Canada, a company known for its blown film bubble management expertise and products such as the trademarked Saturn and Perfect Balance air rings, SES evacuation systems, patented Escort ...

Amcor Partners with Velcro for Flex-Pack Closures

(Flexpack)

March 06, 2012, Partnership to bring a new easy-to-open and re-seal innovation to the fresh and dairy flexible packaging market Amcor Flexibles and Velcro Europe have formed a strategic partnership to bring an innovative ...

Davis-Standard Reports Acquisition, NPE Presence

(Coating/Laminating)

January 31, 2012, ... of Black Clawson Converting Machinery, which later merged with Davis-Standard in 2005. Davis-Standard CEO Charlie Buckley will become chairman, with Robert Preston joining the company as new CEO. In ...

ERP Systems | The 7 Most Common Disguised Expenses

(Trends/Management)

January 02, 2012, ... really mean free. It’s a tempting word, but it raises hairs on the backs of people’s necks. Nothing is ever free. You know the company with the low cost offer has to make money to stay in business … so ...

Static Beat: Beat Winter Static

(Static-Beat)

November 22, 2011, Now is the time for maintenance and process adjustments to prevent winter static. Static becomes worse when the humidity is low. Cold air holds less moisture than warm air. So, the relative humidity ...

Mohawk Buys Synthetic & Paper Supplier Bravo Solutions

(News | New Products)

August 15, 2011, ...  According to Thomas D. O’Connor Jr., Mohawk’s chairman and CEO, “This acquisition is a strategic opportunity for Mohawk and its customers.  We are committed to expanding our offerings to the growing ...

Education Training: School's in Sessio

(Trends/Management)

July 31, 2011, ... a week in the summer from Clemson's Dept. of Graphic Communications, where Dr. Sam T. Ingram is chair and professor. Ingram's department runs combination webinars once a week in the summer with both students ...

Experience Speaks: Myron Geiser

(Trends/Management)

June 30, 2011, General Manager of Capri Packaging How did you get into the converting business? Schreiber Foods, a customer-brand dairy company, was challenged with General Manager of Capri Packaging How did ...

Drives Motors: From Zero to 800

(Label/Tape)

June 30, 2011, ... installed in a 40-ft Circonix Container Drive system (CCD). The CCD is a steel shipping container used as a drive house and is custom-fitted with two access doors, a 220 VAC lighting system, air conditioning, ...

Change Cartridge Quickly

(Slit)

May 31, 2011, ... has upper slitters that are air-loaded against bottom knife anvils. Bottom slitter rings are positioned laterally across air shaft that is driven by an AC motor. Maxson Automatic Machinery Co. | 401-596-0162 ...

Monster Energy Drink Gets Military Decoration

(Inks/Coatings/Primers)

May 24, 2011, ... by the Army and Air Force Exchange Service (AAFES) and other military logistic operations throughout the US in addition to bases in Europe, the Pacific, and the war zones in Afghanistan and Iraq. The cans ...

TLMI Announces Eugene Singer Award Winners

(Label/Tape News)

March 31, 2011, ... Springs, CA: • Centennial, CO-based Columbine Label Co. won in the small company category for the first time. The small company category is defined by annual sales of less than $6 million.  • Fairfield, ...

Service Makes the Sale

(Flexography)

March 31, 2011, ... to mention that Bison also is a very green company. “We recycle as much as we can to reduce our carbon footprint, including solvents, film, corrugated, and so on. We use variable speed air compressors ...

AIMCAL Awards: Canisters Blow Away Competition

(Metallizing)

March 31, 2011, ... and communicate the smooth chocolatey nature of the rich éclair brownie product. Uflex provides the substrate, rotogravure printing, plasma metallization (for improved barrier properties), laminating, ...

Recorded Live at Converters Expo!

(Yo's Yarns)

March 19, 2011, On March 3, I visited Converters Expo in Green Bay, WI. It was held at Lambeau Field, home of the Super Bowl XLXV Champions. It was a little scarry to enter Packer territory for this Bear fan, but visiting ...

AIMCAL Awards: Canisters Blow Away Competition

(Coating/Laminating)

March 17, 2011, ... nature of the interior rich éclair brownie product. Uflex provides the substrate, rotogravure printing, plasma metallization (for improved barrier properties), laminating, and slitting. A die-punched ...

Reporter

(Magazine)

January 31, 2011, ... Hanita Coatings chooses Hutchison Miller Sales, New Britain, PA, as its representative in Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Arizona, and Utah. Omnova Solutions, Fairlawn, OH, increases prices ...

Web Cleaning: To Contact or Not?

(Web Cleaning)

January 31, 2011, ... effectively a web cleaner must break up the boundary layer of air that is entrained by the moving web, holding contamination firmly to the substrate's surface (any fast moving object will create a boundary ...

TLMI Honors Best Converter & Supplier

(Yo's Yarns)

October 28, 2010, ... of the Year among many label award accolades. John Hickey, CEO of Smyth Cos., Inc., St. Paul, MN, and past TLMI chairman of the board, was selected Converter of the Year–an honor awarded by package PRINTING’s ...